EP2836807B1 - Kalibrierung von einem messinstrument zur messung des materialeigenschaften von diamanten - Google Patents

Kalibrierung von einem messinstrument zur messung des materialeigenschaften von diamanten Download PDF

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EP2836807B1
EP2836807B1 EP13714329.3A EP13714329A EP2836807B1 EP 2836807 B1 EP2836807 B1 EP 2836807B1 EP 13714329 A EP13714329 A EP 13714329A EP 2836807 B1 EP2836807 B1 EP 2836807B1
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    • G01N21/27—Colour; Spectral properties, i.e. comparison of effect of material on the light at two or more different wavelengths or wavelength bands using photo-electric detection ; circuits for computing concentration
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    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
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    • G01N21/84—Systems specially adapted for particular applications
    • G01N21/87—Investigating jewels
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  • the present invention refers to methods for the calibration or cross calibration of measuring devices used for the measurement of material properties of individual objects.
  • the method may be applied to calibrate just one machine or may be applied to calibrate a plurality of machines possibly dispersed around the world thus providing a global standard. While the method disclosed has general applicability it is most beneficial for measuring devices that measure and possibly sort objects at high throughputs.
  • the physical properties to be measured may be any single material property, which may include any physical, optical, electrical or chemical property of an object that is observable such as its mass or even its temperature, but more commonly the measurement will involve a plurality of dimensions.
  • the method may be applied to the measure of the colour of an object which may in general be considered to be a measurement in three dimensions.
  • the colour of a picture element or pixel of a digital image may be parameterised by specifying the red green and blue values, although other parameterisations may be used such as the well-known CIE L* a* b* where L* refers to the apparent lightness of the object on a scale of 0 (black) to 100 (white) and a* and b* are colour differences in approximately green - red and blue - yellow dimensions.
  • each dimension of the measurement may be made on an interval scale and may be characterised by a real number.
  • Mathematically a measurement of a single parameter such as an object's mass may be described as determining a scalar property while a measurement in multiple dimensions produces a vector with two, three or more components.
  • Certain physical properties of an object for example the Moment of Inertia may be more properly described using tensors, but for the purposes of this discussion the components of the tensor can be considered to form a vector.
  • the calibration involves determining two numbers which may be characterised as a scaling factor (1.25) and an offset (-6.25).
  • a scaling factor 1.25
  • an offset -6.25
  • An equivalent result may be obtained graphically drawing a straight line graph of observed weight on the x axis and the target weight on the y axis.
  • rough diamonds are fed from a hopper into a measurement cell which produces an uncalibrated measurement of the property to be measured for example weight or colour.
  • the rough diamonds are fed through the machine at an appreciable rate for example 7.5 stones / second in order to deal with the large numbers of small diamonds produced by a diamond mine.
  • the diamonds may be dispensed into one of a plurality of dispense bins the particular bin being determined by the result of the measurement.
  • the uncalibrated measurements from the machine may be subject to substantial random measurement errors.
  • the orientation of the stone which may be random introduces considerable variability into the measurement.
  • One way of mitigating this random error for an individual stones is to have a plurality of measurement channels for example 9 so that each stone is presented to each channel in turn or simultaneously but in a different orientation. By combining the results from each channel perhaps using an average technique employing the mean or median result the magnitude of the random error in the colour assigned to that stone may be reduced resulting in a more accurate sorting machine.
  • the present invention aims to solve the problems associated with the current methodology of cross calibrating measuring devices.
  • the following discussion describes some possible embodiments of the invention. It is not intended to be limiting and it will be appreciated that variations from the specific examples below may still fall within the scope of the invention.
  • the present invention in accordance with the independent clam 1 provides a novel method of cross calibrating measuring devices that allows calibrations to be carried out without a direct association between individual target values and their observed values.
  • calibration samples used to cross calibrate two or more measuring devices may be used without regard to the order in which the individual diamonds in the sample are measured and so allows a calibration to be carried out in a greatly reduced time.
  • it also becomes practical to carry out a calibration using for example many thousands of calibration diamonds thus reducing the effect of random errors of observation on the calibration, without creating an unmanageable number of individually identified samples.
  • a measuring device may be calibrated or two or more measuring devices may be cross calibrated by providing a sample of three or more diamonds to be measured to which target statistics for one or more material properties has been assigned wherein said target statistics are independent of the order of presentation of individual diamonds; Providing observed statistics for the sample of three or more of said diamonds wherein the observed data set is recorded from the measuring device and wherein said observed statistics are independent of the order of presentation of individual diamonds and transforming the actual measurement output of the measuring device so that the transformed observed statistics match the target statistics.
  • the transformation can also be applied to uncalibrated measurements of the measuring device to provide calibrated measurements.
  • the method is used to maintain the calibration of two or more measuring devices.
  • the target statistics are generated by providing a sample of three or more diamonds to be measured; measuring one or more material properties for sufficient diamonds in the sample in a first measuring device without regard to order; recording a target data set comprising the said measurements; and calculating target statistics from the target data set.
  • target statistics for a particular sample may be obtained by any convenient method. For a first sample these may even be assigned arbitrarily.
  • One convenient method of obtaining the target statistics for a sample may be to pass the sample through a first machine (which then might be considered to be a master machine) and obtain a first set of observed statistics, to which the label of target statistics for that sample are assigned.
  • the observed statistics are generated by providing the same sample or an essentially identical sample of three or more diamonds to be measured, measuring one or more material properties for sufficient diamonds in the sample in one or more measuring devices without regard to order of presentation of individual diamonds, recording an observed data set comprising all the measurements of said one or more material properties for the sample and assigning observed statistics to the observed data set.
  • target statistics for a particular sample may be obtained by any convenient method. For a first sample these may even be assigned arbitrarily.
  • One convenient method of obtaining the target statistics for a sample may be to pass the sample through a first machine (which then might be considered to be a master machine) and obtain a first set of observed statistics, to which the label of target statistics for that sample are assigned.
  • the method is applicable to calibration with a low number of individual diamonds in the range 3 to 100, such as 3 or 5 or 10 or 20 or 50 or 100 individual diamonds.
  • the method is also applicable to larger numbers of individual diamonds in the range of 100 to 1,000 such as 200 or 500 or 750 individual diamonds.
  • the method is applicable to individual diamonds in the range 1,000 to 10,000 such as 2,000 or 5,000 or 7,500 individual diamonds.
  • a mathematical transformation of the uncalibrated data is defined.
  • the transformation will be assumed to be a linear transformation of the form discussed earlier so that the calibration process will involve the determination of a gain and an offset.
  • the transformation to be used will take into account the variations that the designer of the instrument might expect to occur or may be determined empirically based on the behaviour of for example a number of different prototypes. It is convenient if the transformation is a linear transformation but this is not essential.
  • the final result of the measurement is produced as a result of a series of calculations it may be more appropriate to carry out the calibration using the intermediate values rather than the final result. This is especially the case if the final measurement involves a non-linear transformation of the intermediate results.
  • the transformation it is desirable for the transformation to be as simple as possible to achieve the desired effect with the minimum number of parameters. Including extra parameters may result in over fitting which delivers better performance to training data but does not give poorer results when applied to other situations. For example - in the case of the weighing machine if it is known a priori that a (hypothetical) object of zero mass will give uncalibrated readings with a mean of zero then it might be desirable to omit the offset term in the transformation.
  • a parcel of diamonds for example containing for example 1000 or 2000 diamonds is assembled.
  • the weights of each stone are recorded by any convenient means. This could be by weighing each stone individually on a conventional balance or passing the stones through a high speed weighing machine that has already been calibrated.
  • This parcel may be known as Calibration parcel. It is advisable for the goods in the Calibration parcel to have a distribution of weights that in some sense matches the distribution of weights the machine is likely to see in normal production so that the calibration has taken into account the full range and distribution of observations likely to be encountered.
  • a further parcel may be prepared known as a Verification parcel. This is kept to test that the calibration process has been successful and may be employed at later times to ensure that the machine remains in calibration.
  • Verification of the calibration of the machine may be carried out by
  • a tolerance of the mean weights of 1% or 0.1% would be acceptable.
  • a tolerance in absolute units for example one gram or one milligram rather than a percentage. It will be understood that the skilled artisan would understand that the specific tolerances may vary from application to application.
  • a table of data of target weights for the parcels is assembled most conveniently in a computer data file and possibly stored on a database.
  • the data need not be listed in any particular order although there is no harm in sorting the data perhaps into ascending order to facilitate the calculation of histograms or cumulative curves.
  • Target Statistics At least one but preferably a plurality of statistical properties are calculated which may be known as Target Statistics.
  • the mean and the standard deviation may serve as Target Statistics but other properties may be used such as the histogram including the median (50 th percentile) and the interquartile range.
  • the choice of Target Statistics to use will be based on the particular circumstances of the measurement and it is not possible to prescribe the optimal choice in advance but those described here will be sufficient to work the invention to a reasonable degree of effectiveness.
  • further Target Statistics may be defined such as the cumulative curve of weights perhaps measured at every centile.
  • the Calibration Parcel is fed through the machine to be calibrated producing a second table of data which may be known as the Observed Data.
  • the Observed Data is treated in the same way as for the Calibration Date to produce a set of Observed Statistics. These will in general be close to but not exactly matching the Target Statistics.
  • the gain term may be determined as the ratio of the Target Standard deviation to the Observed standard deviation. It is then straight forward to calculate the new transformed mean assuming no offset. The calibration offset may then be calculated as the difference between the Target and transformed Observed means.
  • a computer spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel TM may be programmed to display for example the cumulative plots of the Target and transformed Observed data, the transformation being determined by cells on a sheet. These cells may be adjusted manually until the curves overlap to the satisfaction of the operator.
  • a measure of deviation such as the Kolmogorov-Smirnov distance the Excel Solver may be used to minimise the observed deviation between the two curves.
  • the coefficients of the transformation may be used in any convenient means. Usually this will involve passing the calibration coefficients to the instrument so that further results are automatically scaled by the transformation. For example they may be saved to a computer file in the form of a calibration matrix in homogeneous coordinates as described earlier.
  • the invention may also be applied to correct earlier recorded but uncalibrated observations.
  • the colour measurement machine means are provided to transfer individual diamonds from an input hopper via a measurement cell to an output possibly with a plurality of dispense bins.
  • a plurality of colour measurement channels are provided in the measurement cell each arranged so that the diamond is observed from a different orientation so that the apparent colour of the object from that orientation is determined.
  • Each channel provides a measurement of colour in the form of three numbers which may range without limitation from 0.0 to 1.0, the three numbers representing the red, green and blue values which may be considered to form a row vector ⁇ r, g,b,1.0 ⁇ where the 1.0 represents the constant term following the convention of homogeneous co-ordinates.
  • a white or colourless object might be expected to have values approaching 1.0 for r, g and b and a black object values close to 0.0.
  • a yellow object, a common colour in diamonds will have a b value that is less than that for the green channel while a brown object another common colour in diamonds will tend to have both g and b values less than that recorded for the r channel.
  • this transformation may be performed by a matrix multiplication on the original data vector.
  • a and b would ideally be 0.0 for both black and white (or colourless) objects, the overall lightness level being encoded in the y channel. Yellow objects would tend to have positive b values and approximately zero for a. Brown objects would tend to have positive a and b values.
  • One method of calibrating the colour machine according to this invention is to apply the method of the first example to the three signals y a and b independently.
  • Observed Statistics for y a and b are obtained from each channel of the machine for Calibration Parcel and a transformation for each feature and channel is found to match pre-defined Target Statistics.
  • the Calibration Parcel contains a full range of colours that the machine is likely to encounter in production so that calibration is balanced over this range and does not fail when it encounters diamond colours that have not been encountered during calibration.
  • the a and b signals required an adjustment to compensate out the correlation with the y signal. This may be carried out by a transformation that for the a and b channels mixes in a small proportion of the y channel into the a and b channel signals.
  • the means of y a and b are recorded as Observed Statistics.
  • the Variances and Covariances of the data are computed. This produces a 3x3 symmetric matrix, known as a Covariance Matrix with the Variances on the diagonal and the Covariances off the diagonal.
  • the Correlation Coefficient is a number between -1 and 1 that describes the degree of linear correlation between the two variables. It had the advantage that it is not altered by scaling of either variable. However it can be influenced by mixing for example some of the y signal into the b signal.
  • the calibration proceeds by first finding how much of the y signal needs to be mixed into the b signal so that the correlation coefficient of the transformed b signal matches that for the Target statistics.

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  1. Verfahren zur Kalibrierung eines Messinstruments zur Messung der Materialeigenschaften von Diamanten, umfassend:
    (i) Bereitstellen einer Probe von drei oder mehr zu messenden Diamanten, denen eine Sollstatistik für eine oder mehrere Materialeigenschaften zugeordnet wurde, wobei die Sollstatistik von der Reihenfolge der Präsentation der einzelnen Diamanten unabhängig ist;
    (ii) Erstellen der beobachteten Statistik für die Probe auf der Grundlage des beobachteten Datensatzes der Probe, der vom Messinstrument aufgezeichnet wurde, und wobei die beobachtete Statistik von der Reihenfolge der Präsentation der einzelnen Diamanten unabhängig ist und;
    (iii) Umwandeln des Ist-Messausgangs des Messinstruments, so dass die umgewandelte beobachtete Statistik der Sollstatistik entspricht.
    Wobei die Sollstatistik erzeugt wird durch:
    (i) Bereitstellen einer Probe von drei oder mehr zu messenden Diamanten;
    (ii) Messen einer oder mehrerer Materialeigenschaften für ausreichend Diamanten in der Probe in einem ersten Messinstrument ungeachtet der Reihenfolge der Präsentation der einzelnen Diamanten und;
    (iii) Aufzeichnen eines Zieldatensatzes umfassend die Messungen; und Berechnen der statistischen Zieldaten aus dem Zieldatensatz.
  2. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, ferner umfassend Anwenden der Umwandlung auf die unkalibrierten Messungen eines Messinstruments zur Messung von Materialeigenschaften von Diamanten, um kalibrierte Messungen bereitzustellen.
  3. Verfahren nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, wobei die Zielstatistik erzeugt wird durch:
    (i) Bereitstellen derselben Probe oder einer im Wesentlichen identischen Probe von drei oder mehr zu messenden Diamanten;
    (ii) Messen einer oder mehrerer Materialeigenschaften für ausreichend Diamanten in der Probe in einem oder mehr Messinstrumenten ungeachtet der Reihenfolge der Präsentation der einzelnen Diamanten;
    (iii) Aufzeichnen eines Zieldatensatzes, umfassend alle Messungen der einen oder mehreren Materialeigenschaften für die Probe und;
    (iv) Zuordnen der Zielstatistik zu dem beobachteten Datensatz.
  4. Verfahren nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche zur Aufrechterhaltung der Kalibrierung von zwei oder mehr Messinstrumenten zur Messung der Materialeigenschaften von Diamanten.
  5. Verfahren nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, ferner umfassend den Schritt des Überprüfens der Kalibrierung des Messinstruments zur Messung der Materialeigenschaften von Diamanten, umfassend.
    (i) Bereitstellen einer Überprüfungsprobe von drei oder mehr zu messenden Diamanten, denen eine Überprüfungssollstatistik für eine oder mehrere Materialeigenschaften zugeordnet wurde, wobei die Überprüfungssollstatistik von der Reihenfolge der Präsentation einzelner Diamanten unabhängig ist;
    (ii) Bereitstellen der beobachteten Überprüfungsstatistik für die Probe von drei oder mehr der Diamanten auf der Grundlage des beobachteten Datensatzes der Probe, der vom Messinstrument aufgezeichnet wurde, und wobei die beobachtete Überprüfungsstatistik von der Reihenfolge der Präsentation der einzelnen Diamanten unabhängig ist und;
    (iii) Vergleichen der beobachteten Überprüfungsstatistik des Messinstruments mit der Überprüfungssollstatistik und Testen, ob sie innerhalb einer vorbestimmten Toleranz übereinstimmen.
  6. Verfahren nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, wobei die Diamanten Rohdiamanten sind.
  7. Verfahren nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, wobei die gemessenen Eigenschaften der Diamanten Farbe, Masse, Volumen und Trägheitsmoment sind.
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